Resources
Electronic collections and databases, searchable.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
US periodicals from the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s, on a wide variety of topics.
British Library Newspapers
Alternate titles include: 19th Century British Newspapers
All issues from 47 national, regional and local newspapers, from the British Library holdings.
Canadian Historical Newspapers @ ProQuest
Canadian historical newspaper collections available through ProQuest.
Canadian Newsstream
Full text of many Canadian newspapers.
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
Complete archive of the British newspaper content, including the Atlantic Editions.
Embassy (local PDFs)
Independently-owned newsweekly based in Ottawa, covering Canadian foreign policy.
Factiva
A full-text resource with news, business information and journal articles drawn from almost 9000 worldwide sources, including Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and the KW Record.
Gale Primary Sources: Newspapers
Historical newspaper archive search tool.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Growing collection of digitized texts from a consortium of American research universities.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
Historic pressings, contemporary periodicals and more on 200 years of indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.
Keesing's World News Archives
Summaries of world events from more than 1,000 daily news reports.
Lexis Advance Quicklaw
Canadian court decisions and legal commentary.
Nexis Uni
Full-text documents for international news, business, legal research, and key people in the news.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
Scans of British newspapers published from 1800 to 1900.
ProQuest databases (all)
Alternate titles include: All ProQuest databases
Search all ProQuest databases at once.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald
Searchable full-page archive of the newspaper, Calgary Herald.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Montreal Gazette
Searchable full-page archive of the newspaper, Montreal Gazette.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Ottawa Citizen
Searchable full-page archive of the newspaper, Ottawa Citizen.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail
Alternate titles include: Globe and Mail (via ProQuest); The Globe and Mail (via ProQuest)
Full text of the Globe and Mail newspaper, from 1844 up to four years ago.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
Full-text page images.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star
Searchable full-page archive of the newspaper, Toronto Star.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Vancouver Sun
Searchable full-page archive of the newspaper, Vancouver Sun.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Waterloo Region Record
Full text image access to the Waterloo Region Record and all previous versions.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Windsor Star
Searchable full-page archive of the newspaper, Windsor Star.
ProQuest Recent Newspapers: National Post
Searchable full-page access to the newspaper The National Post.
Regional Business News
Index of regional business publications throughout the U.S.
The Hill Times
Independently-owned newsweekly based in Ottawa, covering Canadian foreign policy in depth.
The Hill Times (issues)
Independently-owned twice-weekly news publication based in Ottawa, covering Canadian politics and foreign policy.
The Illustrated London News
Searchable text plus page images of all issues of the "Illustrated London News".
The Times Digital Archive
Searchable full-text images of every page of the London Times newspaper.